Dole vs Alms - What's the difference?
dole | alms |
To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
Money or other goods given as charity.
* Dryden
* Keble
Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
* Cleveland
(informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
* 1996 , ,
* 1997 , , OECD Economic Surveys: Australia ,
A boundary; a landmark.
(UK, dialect) A void space left in tillage.
(archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.
* 1485 , , 1868, Morte Darthur ,
* Tennyson
(legal, Scotland) dolus
Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
* c.'' 1779 ,
As nouns the difference between dole and alms
is that dole is money or other goods given as charity while alms is something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.As a verb dole
is to distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.dole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dol, from (etyl) .Verb
(dol)Noun
- So sure the dole , so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
- Heaven has in store a precious dole .
- At her general dole , / Each receives his ancient soul.
- I get my dole paid twice a week.
- I?ve been on the dole for two years now.
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- The men sit because they?re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole , discussing the world?s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.
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- The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.
- (Halliwell)
Etymology 2
(etyl) dolus, from (etyl) doleo.Noun
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- Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole .
- And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.
Derived terms
* (payment to support the unemployed) dole bludgerAnagrams
* ----alms
English
Noun
(alms)- She gave $10 weekly to the poor as alms .
- Alms are distributed from the weekly collection for the purpose.
- St. Antoninus never refused an alms which was asked in the name of God.